its thursday 12.36am

Here are some random bits of information that one day might just come in handy.

Maybe Mr Steve Wynn isn't such a hot casino mogul after all

In a Chicago Tribune review,
""..here's the bottom line: Wynn, who left the casino business in 2000 when his Mirage Resorts Inc. was bought out, has created in his big comeback a nice but overpriced and highly pretentious property that discourages ordinary people from visiting. Worse, though, it fails to shift the epicenter of this tourist mecca in a way it would seem $2.7 billion would.''

The Kronos Quartet goes Bollywood with their latest album

Now if wine is made from grapes, why don't they taste of grapes instead of chocolate, mint, raspberry and countless more descriptions that I can't personally fathom

As quoted in a recent London Times story.... At a recent tasting a man inhaled deeply and proclaimed: “I’m getting Brazilian woman.”

On another note, when Bloglines faltered Tuesday, I was at such a loss of what to do.
That mean I had to actually go visit each blog? The horror and inconvenience of it all.
I decided to just read The Guardian Weekend's story on Coldplay and How To Have A Picnic (""Some people, often elderly, take neat wicker baskets packed with a 48-piece crockery picnic set. That's more than the average person has at home and it weighs as much as a bag of cement. No wonder the elderly often picnic 12 inches from their car."")